Are you nerdy enough to handle this?
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: December 5, 2007 11:13 AM, by PZ Myers
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If you are going to have a dwarf, don't you also need a beer volcano?
Posted by: Janine | December 5, 2007 11:27 AM
nnnnno.
Nope. No.
Posted by: Sven DiMIlo | December 5, 2007 11:29 AM
"Whatever, mathlete."
Posted by: Hank Fox | December 5, 2007 11:32 AM
I'm afraid I was nerdy enough to even get the reference to the Tanuki, massive genitalia and all, during the credits...
Posted by: forsen | December 5, 2007 11:35 AM
Oh man. I am SO starting up my night elf Druid again over winter break. Stupid school, keeping me from my beloved Azeroth!!!
Who am I kidding, Outland is WAY cooler than Azeroth.
Posted by: LM | December 5, 2007 11:36 AM
Only one way to describe that:
"Hurts so good..."
--Raynfala
Posted by: Raynfala | December 5, 2007 11:36 AM
What was that, it was hilarious, I want to see more.
Posted by: thadd | December 5, 2007 11:43 AM
Wow. Now that was nerdy. I mean, they were obviously using an old rule set for their D&D campaign. Buy some new books guys. All the cool kids have them.
Posted by: Schmeer | December 5, 2007 12:33 PM
Is this Darwin's walking stick's magic ancestor I saw there?
Posted by: oldcola | December 5, 2007 12:33 PM
Both the MMORPGs I play are down, so combination of sword-and-sorcery nerdiness with a nifty shot at the nativity is just WIN all over.
Posted by: Tom Morris | December 5, 2007 12:48 PM
Were they off to get the new Red Dwarf box set near the end? Yay!
Posted by: Susan | December 5, 2007 12:50 PM
LM,
seriously! However, I see your NEDruid and raise you a BEWarlock ;)
"I'm a demon summoner, maybe I summoned them!"
Posted by: themann1086 | December 5, 2007 1:08 PM
...I'm still laughing.
And 3d20 damage from that shield? That is good.
Posted by: Sengkelat | December 5, 2007 1:34 PM
Nuh-uh. The bronze age in the middle east ended by 1100 B.C.E.
What a bunch of dorks not to know that.
Also AC20 on a shield? Weak. That DM needs to be fired.
Posted by: inkadu | December 5, 2007 1:42 PM
"Buy some new books guys. All the cool kids have them."
What an odd thing to say...
Posted by: jba | December 5, 2007 1:49 PM
Haha! I was certainly nerdy enough to appreciate this, including the Tanuki, although I only get 5 points for that, since I couldn't remember what it was called.
I was waiting for "Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!"
Posted by: Dread Polack | December 5, 2007 1:58 PM
Nah, they just threw a load of World of Warcraft into the mix.
The d20 is not a damage die! Paladins can't be Lawful Evil! Also that was brilliant.
Posted by: Morgan | December 5, 2007 2:03 PM
I am defiantly nerdy enough, I just arrived home from playing D&D. Saying that I have never gone to any LARP, bit too much for me.
Posted by: Gobaskof | December 5, 2007 2:10 PM
Actually that doesn't seem so incredible after you've seen the traditional Finnish nativity play "Tiernapojat", where the birth of Jesus gets upstaged by more exciting things like a power struggle between king Herod and 'the king of the Moors'. Does this mean that Finns are nerds? :)
Posted by: windy | December 5, 2007 2:52 PM
It has a very "Venture Brothers" look to the animation...
Posted by: Jim Lippard | December 5, 2007 4:30 PM
That was distilled awesomeness.
Posted by: gsb | December 5, 2007 5:07 PM
I have to throw agree with whomever said the BA ended in 1100 in the region (though I would usually hit more around 1200 BCE), it would have been much more accurate to say Hellenistic Period.
Posted by: thadd | December 5, 2007 5:23 PM
That was awesome. Makes me miss LARPing all the more
Posted by: Michael | December 5, 2007 5:23 PM
Wow, all those strange urges to play AD&D with y fat basement friends came back. Seriously, I want to play. Anyone got a game set up?
Posted by: Will | December 5, 2007 5:46 PM
Awesome! That's an actual anime? I gotta go find it now.
"Baby Jesus is a better cleric..."
Posted by: SabrinaW | December 5, 2007 5:59 PM
Wait a minute...What nerd worth his salt would be fishing in a bin for a copy of Highlander 2? A director's cut of Highlander yes, but any TRUE nerd would be chewing out the management of the store for even stocking the vile crappiness that is Highlander 2.
Posted by: Dawn | December 5, 2007 6:00 PM
Poor party management! you keep the demon-summoner in the back rank where he can summon uninterrupted!
And: no nerd worthy of the name would be shopping for Highlander 2. Now, the new HD-DVD of Star Trek ToS I could see.
Posted by: DLC | December 5, 2007 6:49 PM
Anyone know the name of that anime.
The credits looked real enough. Not like Kung Fu Jimmy Chow.
The only thing I thought was suss against it being real was the "I'm in Ur Manger..." bit at the end.
Classic gold. I wonder whose reputation I have to grind to get the reebok summoning spell.
Posted by: zayzayem | December 5, 2007 7:01 PM
Morgan:
For a while, right after the introduction of 3.0 I think, they removed the alignment restrictions on paladins; the class was essentially turned into fightin' religious zealots instead of lawful good exclusives. Thats also when they removed the human/dwarf requirement for being a paladin, but the changes didn't go over too well so they didn't last too long. Since then, Wizards has gone back to the old idea of just adding death knight/dark knight prestige classes for evil folks to stack onto warriors and clerics.
Posted by: Julian | December 5, 2007 7:23 PM
How can Bill Donahue even talk about plots to corrupt children, when his church is basically a plot to fuck children? Mind-boggling.
Posted by: brandon | December 5, 2007 8:14 PM
Gargh, wrong thread!
Posted by: brandon | December 5, 2007 8:15 PM
Are you sure it's the wrong thread? Are you sure you're not a wizard summoning the demon Bill Donahue into this thread?
Posted by: inkadu | December 5, 2007 10:24 PM
You want nerdy?
How about d20 stats for the Invisible Pink Unicorn?
http://hexxenhammer.blogspot.com/2007/12/invisible-pink-unicorn.html
Posted by: Hexxenhammer | December 6, 2007 12:25 AM
The cartoon comes from here originally, http://www.fortaxreasons.com/ unfortunately its their only D&D stuff
Posted by: Thadd | December 6, 2007 9:05 AM
Sadly, yes-- I am, in fact, nerdy enough to handle it. Plus, I made my sanity roll, so I only lost 1d4.
Posted by: s9 | December 6, 2007 3:34 PM